Towards the end of last year, I decided that 2011 would be the year that I made life a little bit easier for myself and streamline stuff to make things quicker to organise for my customers.

One of the decisions I made was to stop offering mugs as although they are fairly popular, they’re expensive to post and a pain to have printed, amongst other reasons.

As it happened, around the same time as I decided to do this, the last batch of mugs I got printed up got lost in the post and cutting a long story short, I ended up with 3 times as many mugs as I should have.

I’ve already given away many of these through Twitter but when tidying up the studio after the trade show aftermath, I found yet another box of mugs, so it’s definitely time for a giveaway!

I’m going to give away 5 sets of these mugs to the lucky winners. 5 lucky winners! All I ask is that you leave a nice coment on this post. That’s it. That simple.

You’ll get an extra entry for Twittering, Facebooking, etc.

You’ll get an extra entry for becoming a fan of Miso Funky on Facebook and another for following us on Twitter.

And you’ll get an extra entry if you sign up to our newsletter, too (over there on the sidebar).

The giveaway is open internationally and it’ll close on Sunday 6th February at midnight GMT.

Drumroll, please!

Thanks everyone who entered the giveaway!

The winner of the Breakdance mug has been chosen by random.org and the winner is comment number 32, Lorna!

As chance would have it, Lorna’s was one of my favourite comments as she’d gone to the trouble of writing a poem about said mugs:

Mugs, mugs, glorious mugs,
I like to collect them, they’re better than pugs!
You can fill them with coffee, tea or wine,
they’re better than glasses that break all the time.
They’re pure well hard, like a gang of thugs,
I love you my dear, my beautiful mug.

Now, that’s dedication! Lorna, please email me at hello@misofunky.com with your address to claim your prize!

Stay tuned, as I do believe I have another giveaway planned very soon…

To celebrate the arrival of our brand new mugs, what better than to give one away to one of our favourite people, a reader of our blog?

I know, I know, I’m too good to you! To be in with a chance to win a Breakdance mug, then all you need to do is leave a comment here before 12 noon on Thursday 30th September. The winner will receive a mug and a selection of other Miso Funky goodies.

For extra entries, you can Tweet about the competition, with a link to this post, mentioning @misofunky. You can also gain an extra entry by becoming a fan of our Facebook page.

The competition is open to everyone, internationally and the winner will be drawn at random after the closing date.

So, spread the word and leave your comment below to enter.

Remember when you used to be able to buy all sort of Japanese kawaii stationery and such at Miso Funky?

You still can, but it’s now all over at the best repository for all things cute, Super Cute Kawaii, which I run alongside Marceline.

We’re having a super sale right now, with many, many bargains! Check it out until 18th July.

We post every week day with new kawaii finds, competitions, interviews, etc, so make sure you don’t miss it!

I bet you’ve all been waiting with baited breath to see who won the Eastenders giveaway! I know I have, but I’ve been so busy that I’ve hardly had time to squeeze in fancy stuff like sleeping, never mind drawing a winner!

But today, our trusty friend, Mr Random.org, has done the business and the winner is…

Comment #7 – Clare.

Clare, email me your address to have your prize sent to!

Thanks everyone who took part and of course to Laura who supplied the prize. I’ll certainly bring you news of her new projects as soon as I get it!

Now – back to the frantic preparation for Bust in London this Saturday! I only have a small pitch and it’s very difficult deciding how to set that up and what to take! If you’re going on Saturday and have a special request, make sure you get in touch beforehand so I can make sure I bring it!

All good things come in small packages, as they say, but they must also come to an end.

So, it’s with heavy heart that we announce the end of the Eastenders range from embroiderist extraordinaire, Laura Donald!

Yes, that’s right, Dot, Pat, et al will be bidding adieu to their embroidered alter egos as Laura hangs up her East end stitcheries to concentrate on new projects.

So, you really have a limited time to get your mitts on what’s now a limited edition piece of craft work. You can check out the full range here.

But wait! Laura is very kindly giving you the chance to win a set of Eastenders lavender bags as a final fling. You can win a set of 2 lavender bags – Pat & Dot – and all you have to do is leave a comment on this post before 12 midnight on Tuesday 29th June (GMT).

You can get extra entries and good karma by blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, telling strangers on the street – simply mention that in your comment.

Laura’s also running a giveaway over at her own blog (it’s her blog’s second birthday today!) where you could win a set of Eastenders notecards! So you have two chances to win. Click hereto go see.

Laura’s not disappearing all together, thankfully! So keep your eyes peeled for new projects from her coming in the future. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

Well, that was interesting! I’ve had a great time over the last week reading and answering your questions. You can see them all here.

There is one lucky winner of the Home Sweet Fucking Home sampler:

The winner is Laura, who asked:

Hello there, My question to you is… “what is the rudest word you have ever stitched?”

I particularly enjoyed answering this one as it reminded me of the email I got to ask me to stitch the particularly rude phrase – it gave me a good old chuckle. You can see the answer on the Formspring page with a link to a picture – don’t click on it if you are easily offended (or you are my mum).

Laura, check your email!

I said I’d also give away 2 coasters, and these are going to Nikki McW, who asked me about chips and where the best ones are in Glasgow and Nicki T who gave me a blast from the past enquiring about my old pal, Furry Norman. That’s a story for another day though!

Ladies, get in touch at hello at misofunky dot com and we’ll get your coaster sorted out.

Thanks everyone who asked a question! You can ask questions any time you like of course, just for the hell of it here.

Lots of stuff happening behind the scenes here just now, so stay tuned for news soon!

It’s been a bit of a quiet time from us on the old blogerino, but that’s cos we’ve been taking a bit of a break. Our favourite cousins have been visiting from the US of A, so we took ourselves off for a mini-break in our own city (Glasgow), this weekend.

But now it’s Monday and time to get back to work! Ah, Monday morning – it must surely be the least-favourite day all over the world. That back-to-work feeling really sucks after a whole weekend of doing your own thing.

To try to lighten up the day a bit, I’ve decided to make it competition day!

To enter, it’s rather simple. I know that Marceline over at Asking For Trouble had great fun answering questions posed by readers at Formspring, so I’m going to follow in her footsteps and have my own quiz!

To be in with a chance of winning this Home Sweet F&!king Home sampler, above, simply click here to ask us a question or leave your question in the comments (remember to leave your email address too!).

You can ask anything you like – serious, funny, factual, personal – I’ll answer them and we’ll all have fun, capiche? Then the winner will take this sampler home to roost on their mantelpiece and frighten the neighbours.

The winner is the person who asks the question I like best, so it’s up to you to make it interesting! There are also 2 runner up prizes of I heart gin coasters, as the winners of the last giveaway were LOSERS who did not claim their prizes!

The competition is open for a whole week - the closing date is Monday 26th April at 12 noon.  I do reserve the right not to answer anything even I think is inappropriate! You can also get extra brownie points and good karma for spreading the word via Twitter, your blog, Facebook, etc, too. The competition is open internationally.

Now, get your thinking caps on!

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s giveaway! It was nice to see some comments from new faces as well as established fans :)

So, without further ado, the winners, plucked at random from Hamish’s nosebag:

Heidi
Ingrid

Please email your postal address to hello at misofunky dot com to claim your prize!

Thank you to everyone who entered. Fear not if you didn’t win this time – I’ve got another giveaway coming up very soon, this time on a tea towel tip!

And don’t forget the tiny sale is now on!

It’s been a little while since our last giveaway, so it must be time for another. The weather is terrible here in Glasgow – it’s been snowing for 24 hours and it’s hard to believe that it’s officially summer time.

Completely unrelated to that though is the prize! I’ve got some I Love Gin coasters to give away to two lucky winners. These are always really popular items here at Miso Funky, but I’ll let you into a secret – I actually hate gin! It makes me sick just sniffing it – yuck!

To be in with a chance of winning, just leave a comment telling me what your favourite drink is, alcoholic or not. The winner will be chosen by Hamish at random after the competition closes at 3pm on Friday 2nd April.

For extra entries, you can post about the giveaway on Twitter, your blog, Facebook, writing it in the sky with a bi-plane. Just mention that in your comment.